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Example sentences for "army officer"

  • The fact was, that being questioned as to the colour of the coat, he stated that he appeared to be an army officer, to which he very naturally attached the idea of a red coat, for the servants did not see it.

  • Moderate your passions, Mr. Army Officer," Pavel said languidly, mocking his old gymnasium director.

  • Cyclops" bent over to an army captain with a pair of grandiose side-whiskers and said something in order to hear himself address a Gentile and an army officer in the familiar "thou.

  • While he was describing the girl's aunt, a passing soldier saluted Makar, mistaking him for an army officer.

  • Army officer's pay is enough for any sensible girl.

  • But what gets me is for an Army officer to have to be roundly coached in philosophy, as regards sound and light.

  • Besides, Cameron was not much in the way of risking his life, while an Army officer may be killed at any time, even in an ordinary riot.

  • As an army officer's opportunities for making fifty thousand dollars are practically non-existent, he became so moody that Kate thought her suspicions about him and Fenie were verified.

  • This is another couple--a lady and an army officer.

  • Later in the morning Trif, seated on the piazza near the beach, was astonished to see her sister approaching with an army officer, with whom she seemed to be well acquainted.

  • If I cannot endure prejudice and persecutions, even if they are offered, then I don't deserve the cadetship, and much less the commission of an army officer.

  • I have had considerable correspondence with an army officer, a stranger to me, on this subject of being detailed at some college.

  • But what is of importance, and great importance too, is how they will treat me in the army, when we have all assumed the responsibilities of manhood, coupled with those of a public servant, an army officer.

  • Poor Chamberlain von Tumpling earned that scurvy epithet the other day and he prides himself on being a nobleman and an army officer!

  • He began prating about his character as an army officer again, and I reminded him that I wasn't the Countess Cosel.

  • Louise, remember that I am an army officer.

  • He called you, an army officer, a 'Lausbub.

  • He's a West Point man and an army officer.

  • Evarts's face turned somewhat paler at this information of having an army officer on hand as a witness.

  • Well, one would expect to see an army officer in uniform, you know.

  • As an army officer, if this were a fort that I commanded in troublous times, I'd want to look into any strange craft that I caught cruising lazily in the offing and holding a marine glass on us.

  • He brought with him the celebrated Forsythe Scouts, who were commanded by Lieutenant Pepoon, a regular-army officer.

  • I told him that I could, and was made guide, chief of scouts, and master of transportation, acting with an army officer as quartermaster.

  • Having no standing as an army officer or as a Government agent, it was necessary for me to be supplied with some sort of credentials, in order to secure the assistance I should need on my mission.

  • An army officer is supposed to have no politics, or if he has he keeps them in reserve.

  • An army officer is supposed to do his duty regardless of who holds political authority over him, and this he does most loyally.

  • Army officer, in a low voice, yet one that would carry.

  • An Army officer is supposed to be a man of some social consequence.

  • Why," confessed Algy honestly, "I told him that it had never occurred to me before that a cigarette smoker is violating the nuisance act all day long, and that an Army officer could be in better business than breaking the minor laws.

  • He was the son of an army officer, who was afterwards in the civil service, a very competent, intelligent man, who left his family in dire poverty at his death.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    army against; army corps; army headquarters; army life; army officer; army officers; army reform; army service; army was; brilliantly lighted; cannot remember; commercial value; eighth inch; electrical currents; even unto; father told; heart full; heavy weather; kept waiting; made them; national power; petroleum products; poor lord; said gravely; shook himself; well rubbed